Trees & Pigs

Asian Pear graft from last year.  It has been grafted onto a volunteer sucker that came up near an old pear tree.  Most likely old pear or quince stock.  It is amazing that this flowered on it's first real year.  Soon we will make a spot for it out in the orchard.

Here is Link.  She is a gilt that will make the trip to Lopez soon to be bred with a Berkshire.  She has really sized up very well.  Good natured and as you can see, she knows where the food is.  Maybe in the future she will be bred via A.I. with pure mangalitsa, when it becomes available.  We are most certainly sold on the pork quality, thanks to Heath, it has made us crazy enough to keep pigs on site.

June Progress Report

Tomato plants are all trellised and set in the green house. It is finally warm and dry, everything is in super growth mode from all of the rain. We should see fast growth once they settle in.  It is not too cool in the Pacific Northwest or Orcas Island, to grow heirloom Tomatoes









The plum grafts are really taking off.
We have removed much of the original tree to allow all of the energy go directly to the graft. This graft is in range of our many deer, who would love to eat all of the leaves, so we had to add the cage. Look at the growth since the picture from May 9 th post

This pear tree looks like Frankenpeartree, but soon the new growth will fill in.  This has the old heirloom varieties, with any luck, pears next year.